Oak Ridge National Laboratory  Center for Transportation Analysis  National Transportation Research Center  2360 Cherahala Boulevard  Knoxville, TN 37932  United States of America

(865) 946-1461 (office)  (865) 946-1314 (fax)  curleetr@ornl.gov (email)

Specialty Research Areas:

• Transportation Economics
• Freight Transport Modeling
• Inland Navigation Economic Modeling
• Public Transit Benefits
• Energy Economics
• Environmental Economics
• Automobile Materials
• Water/Energy Nexus
• Life Cycle Analysis
• Recycling Plastics Waste
• Municipal Waste Management
• Automobile Recycling
• Energy Security

Current or Recent Work:

• Led the development of the Ohio River Navigation Investment Model (ORNIM) for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (Corps). ORNIM is a large computer model to assist the Corps in making optimal investment decisions about new construction, rehab, and maintenance over a long-term horizon.
• Led an economic assessment of benefits of potential infrastructure improvements to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineer’s, Upper Mississippi and Illinois Waterway System.
• Led a study sponsored by the Tennessee Department of Transportation to estimate the benefits of public transit in Tennessee. The study addressed all direct and indirect benefits of both urban and rural transit.
• Modeling economic interactions between water and energy as applied to transportation, energy security, and economic development.
  

Significant Publications:

T. Randall Curlee, Ingrid Busch, Michael Hilliard, Gbadebo Oladosu, Frank Southworth, and David Vogt (forthcoming) “The Economic Foundations of the Ohio River Navigation Investment Model (ORNIM),” Transportation Research Record.

Frank Southworth, David Vogt, and T. Randall Curlee (forthcoming) “Rural Transit Systems Benefits in Tennessee: Methodology and an Empirical Study,” Transportation Research Record.

T. Randall Curlee and Mike Sale (2003) “Water and Energy Security” Proceedings of the Conference, Water Security in the 21st Century, July 30-August 1, 2003, The University Council on Water Resources, Washington, D.C.

Frank Southworth, David Vogt, and T. Randall Curlee (2002) “Demand for and Benefits of Public Transit Services in Tennessee,” ORNL Report MO2-114048, June.

Frank Southworth, David P. Vogt, and T. Randall Curlee (2001) "An Assessment of Future Demands for and Benefits of Public Transit Services in Tennessee." ORNL/TM-2002/55 sponsored by the Tennessee Department of Transportation.

T. Randall Curlee, Sujit Das, Donald Jones, Paul Leiby, Jonathan Rubin, Susan Schexnayder, David Vogt, and Amy Wolfe (1999) Supporting Infrastructure and Acceptability Issues for Materials Used in New Generation Vehicles, ORNL/TM-13731, March.

T. Randall Curlee and Pieter Van Beukering (1998) “Recycling of Materials,” pp. 229-38 in Managing a Materials World: Perspectives in Industrial Ecology, ed. Pier Vellinga, Frans Berkhart, and Joyeeta Gupta, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht.

T. Randall Curlee and Kathy Yuracko (1999) “The Use of Life Cycle Analysis within the U.S. Department of Energy,” Environmental Progress, vol. 19, no. 2, September.

T. Randall Curlee and Sujit Das (1998) “Recycling of New Generation Vehicles,” Society of Automotive Engineers, paper no. 1999-01-0673, 1998.

T. Randall Curlee and Sujit Das (1998) “The Viability of Recycling Plastics by Tertiary Processes,” Solid Waste Technologies, 2(3), 50-57, March/April 1998.

Mike Bronzini, T. Randall Curlee, Paul Leiby, Frank Southworth, and Mike Summers (1998) “Ohio River Navigation Investment Model Requirements and Model Design,” Transportation Research Record, August.

T. Randall Curlee, Sujit Das, C. G. Rizy, and S. M. Schexnayde (1995) “Automobile Recycling in the United States: Energy Impacts and Waste Generation,” with, Resources, Conservation and Recycling, 14, 265-84.

T. Randall Curlee, S. Schexnayder, D. P. Vogt, A. K. Wolfe, D. L. Feldman, and M. P. Kelsay (1994) Waste-to-Energy in the United States: A Social and Economic Assessment, Quorum Books, New York.

T. Randall Curlee and Arthur W. Wright (1988) “Spinning Wheels: A Review Article” (a review of oil price vulnerability and potential policy responses), with Arthur W. Wright, The Energy Journal, 9(2), 3-16.

T. Randall Curlee, Anthony Turhollow and Sujit Das (1988) “Oil Vulnerability and Modeling Methodologies: The Role of LP Models,” Energy Economics, 10(2), 147-154.

T. Randall Curlee (1986) The Economic Feasibility of Recycling: A Case Study of Plastic Wastes, Praeger Publishing, New York.